'I've Never Had Direct Contact With Them'

Amanda Knox on her desire to reconcile with the family of Meredith Kercher, who she was falsely accused of murdering while they were student roommates in Italy

- by BARNEY HENDERSON

AMANDA KNOX HAS RARELY BEEN FAR FROM THE public eye or, as she puts it, "global vilification.

" Convicted in 2007 of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, Knox became the subject of a global media frenzy. What followed was a yearslong tabloid obsession with her—her sexual history, her high school nickname “Foxy Knoxy,” and lurid prosecution theory that Ker-cher was killed during a Satanic sexual orgy.

Knox, now 38, is reclaiming her narrative with a second autobiography released in May and a new eight-part Hulu drama series launching August 20. In a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred interview with Newsweek, Knox—who was twice convicted and twice acquitted of murder and served nearly four years in prison—speaks candidly about her hope to reconcile with the Kercher family. She says she believes they could find her new book and TV series "healing." "I hope that they will recognize the value in my attempt at revealing the truth of what happened to Meredith in my revealing of the truth of what happened to me," she says.

Adversary or Ally? Knox's Complicated Bond With Her Prosecutor

Knox has struck up a complex friendship with Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor in her case. He developed the unfounded theory that Kercher was killed by Knox, her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, in a drug-fueled sex orgy gone wrong.

Knox and Mignini began regular correspondence in 2019 and met up in 2022. "Some people say to me, 'Is he your friend?' And I don't really know how to answer that question..... He's my perpetrator and he is someone who cares about me," she explains.